Accountability

Page Updated: 09 Nov 2020(No updates in last 10 days)

Page Updated: 09 Nov 2020

(No updates in last 10 days)

We each must play a role in ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of everyone in our community.

Adherence to Harvard University, state, and federal guidelines is critical to resuming activity on campus. All members of our community share this responsibility, beginning with understanding the requirements described and linked below.

Monitoring & Reporting

Community-Based

All community members model and self-regulate. Gently remind each other of the protocols.

Health & Safety Resource Representatives (HSRRs)

Share concerns or questions with faculty, staff and student HSRRs.

Submit a Report

Reported issues will be categorized into one of three levels:

Minor Oversight / Accidental

Colleagues, fellow students or Health & Safety Resource Reps provide gentle policy reminder, offer resources & answer questions

Repeated / Significant Concerns

Administrative Oversight & Coaching: MBA Program (students), Manager / HR (staff), Dean’s Office (faculty)
Review policies, resubmit community commitment & redo training
Could result in loss of some campus access privileges (case-by-case basis)

Refusal to Comply / Serious Concerns

Existing coaching/disciplinary processes will be utilized
COVID Accountability Committee review

Campus Access Protocol

Receive advance approval to access campus.

We are not ready to welcome everybody back to campus. If you are not essential personnel or a student or a student partner, you must have prior approval to enter any campus building. Requests to enter campus must include specific dates, with clear start and end times. Not all requests will be granted.

Faculty

Faculty members who are teaching and in other ways engaging with students, with personal or family situations that make office use preferable, and who prefer to carry out research work at the School are able to be on campus at this time, assuming the Community Commitment (including training) has been completed. Please contact officedean@hbs.edu to ensure your testing cadence is appropriate or with any questions.

Staff

Unless designated as essential personnel by their manager, staff are not allowed on campus without prior manager approval. Otherwise, staff are expected to continue to work remotely until further notice. Additional questions should be directed to coronavirus@hbs.edu.

MBA & Doctoral Students & Partners

All HBS students and partners may come to campus without additional permissions to use public spaces as long as physical distancing is maintained and face coverings are worn. Doctoral students looking to use their offices should email Jen Mucciarone. MBA students with questions should send an email to MBA Student and Academic Services.

Visitors & Guests

Visitors and guests are strongly discouraged from coming to campus at this time. This does not include or apply to partners.

Complete the Community Commitment process, including the embedded training.

As a member of the Harvard Business School community, I understand that I have a personal responsibility to support the health, safety, and well-being of everyone on our campus. To address the unique challenges of managing the COVID-19 pandemic and to foster an environment of trust, in addition to following our community values, I affirm:

I recognize that access to campus may require advance approval, and that it is a privilege I may lose if I do not follow the health and safety guidelines communicated by the School.
If I come to campus, I will follow the health and safety guidelines communicated by the School—including decisions made by national, state, and local governments, as well as by Harvard Business School and Harvard University.
If I come to campus, I understand that I may have to forego my personal preferences and change my choices to comply with health and safety guidelines.
I recognize that my behavior must set an example of respect, honesty and integrity, and accountability.

Complete the Process

Complete Crimson Clear the night before or the morning of your campus visit (Harvard Key required).

Each day prior to coming to campus, or before leaving your living space, you must complete your self-attestation using Crimson Clear. Crimson Clear passes are valid for 23 hours. You must have a valid pass while you are on campus.

Please answer the Crimson Clear self-assessment truthfully, if you are unsure about a symptom, choose the one that best describes your condition. If you are not cleared, please do not leave your home. Follow-up with a call to HUHS at (617) 495-5711 and press the * key. You will be prompted to leave a message and a nurse practitioner will return your call in the order it is received. You may consider contacting your healthcare provider to discuss your symptoms.

Completing Crimson Clear every day you are on campus is critical for HBS to be in compliance with State regulations. Some suggestions to help you remember include:

Associate Crimson Clear with a regular part of your routine for coming to HBS (e.g., "when I grab my Harvard ID or lanyard, that’s a trigger for me to stop and do Crimson Clear"), or keep a note alongside your car keys or MBTA commuter pass
Be sure to renew Crimson Clear during the day
Set a daily calendar reminder
Add a Crimson Clear shortcut to your smartphone
If you’re an iPhone user, configure an arrival or departure shortcut using Apple’s Shortcuts App

If I received a "not cleared" status what will happen?: Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) will receive a system-based notification from Crimson Clear that an individual has not been cleared. This information will be held confidentially by HUHS. If you are not cleared you need to stay at home. You should not return to campus for 14 days following the resolution of the symptoms

Faculty and staff should alert their manager or unit head and report sick time in PeopleSoft or another Harvard timekeeping system.

Students assigned to an in-person seat in a hybrid classroom should attend class virtually instead for 14 days. If you cannot attend class virtually due to your symptoms, please report your absence.
What if I incorrectly answered the questions on Crimson Clear and received a "not cleared"?: If you filled out a Crimson Clear form incorrectly and received a "Not Clear" status, contact HUHS at 617-495-5711 and request a reset of the submission. This will allow you to complete and submit a new self-assessment.
Will I be required to show my Crimson Clear pass?: Crimson Clear passes will not be routinely inspected when you access campus though there may be a need to show the pass for participation in specific activities, including to pick-up an unobserved testing kit. Please have your current cleared pass available on your phone whenever you are on campus.

Participate in the Harvard COVID-19 testing requirements if you are on campus for more than 4 hours per week.

Harvard University Health Services is supporting recurring weekly tests. We have partnered with Color and the Broad Institute to bring you self-administered, unobserved testing. Anyone—students, faculty, or staff—authorized to be on campus more than 4 hours per week should plan to incorporate testing into their campus access protocol. To check your testing cadence in Crimson Clear – select name and Profile, then look under COVID Testing Info > Testing Group. More on testing.